Bed-bottom frame



No. 65,033. Patented NOV. 29, I898. B. NEWBURY.

BED BOTTOM FRAME.

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BED BOTTOM FRAME.

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NITE STATES BOLIVER NEVBURY, OF COXSAOKIE, NE\V YORK.

BED-BOTTOM FRAM E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 615,038, dated November 29, 1898.

Application filed March 4, 1898.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, BoLIvER NEWBURY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Coxsackie, in the county of Greene and State of New York,have invented a newand useful Improvement in Bed-Bottom Frames, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to bed-bottom frames; and it consists in the novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as hereinafter described.

The objects of myinvention are to provide a simple and strong device for securing the end bars of a bed-bottom to its side bars and also to provide, with a device for securing the side bars to the end bars, a simple means by which the latter may be readily adjusted in relation to each other and the ends of the said side bars.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan View of a frame of a woven-wire bed-bottom embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional View taken at line 1 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken at line 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of an adjustable coupling-stud for use for connecting the end bars of the frame with the side bars of the same and illustrating one form of the same. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the same, illustrating another modification. Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing another modification. Fig. 7 is a perspective View illustrating another modification. Fig. 8 is a plan view of a corner of a bed-bottom frame having its parts secured together by means of my improvements, and Fig. 9 is a sectional view of the same.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A A are the side-bar members of a frame of a (woven-wire) bed-bottom, and A A are the end-bar members of the same, which bar members are preferably of iron or steel and are shown to be angular in their cross area.

0 C are vertical coupling-studs, one at each corner of the frame, provided each with a coupling-bolt chamber 0 of capacity sufli- Serial No. 672,483. (No model.)

cient to allow acoupling-bolt to be relatively shifted within the said chamber. All the studs 0 in the same frame are preferably substantially the same in form of construction, andas each modification shown embodies the essential elements of the body of the stud a brief description of said body will suffice for all, while particular descriptions of the adj unct elements, which may be preferred to be used with the stud, as may be, will make clear their purposes when employed. The body of this stud 0 comprises the vertical walls 0 c, inclosing chamber 0, of such dimensions as may adapt it to receive a coupling-bolt and permit the same to be shifted in relation to the stud to a distance of one or more diameters of said bolt. These vertical walls may be of such form as to produce a square, circular, or other form of stud, as may be preferred. With one end of this stud, as the upper end, is provided a flange c and with the opposite end one or more flanges 0 as shown in the several modifications in Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 and indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 8 and 9. The flanges 0 provided with the lower end of the stub, are arranged relatively transverse to the upper side flange c and receive between them the end portions of the side-bar members A of the frame and prevent the stud from shifting in relation to the said bar members in a lateral direction, while the upper side flange o prevents the end-bar members A A from shifting toward each other when against said flange c, with the side-bar members between flanges c 0 The flange c cooperates with the latter to hold the end-bar members at right angles to the side-bar members. The upper side edges 0 (shown to be on a plane below the upper side of flange c) unitedly serve as a seat for receiving the end-bar member and allowing it to be adjusted in relation to the stud O, as may be preferred or required.

WVhen stud G is in form shown in Fig. at or Fig. 6, the bed-frame may be supported in the bedstead D, at each end thereof, froma slat D, Fig. 3; but when it is preferred to dispense with supporting-slats brackets 0 (shown in Figs. 1, 2, 5, and 7) are employed with the stud for bearing on the brackets d, secured to side rails or bars A A of the bedstead, as shown by full lines in Figs. 1 and 2, or for bearing on the end bars A A, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

In some cases, as in double-bedstead bedbottom frames and in frames for beds in vessels, I provide integral with the body-walls c c an extended bracket, as C, Figs. 5 and 7, having its upper surface on a plane with the seating edges 0 formed by the upper edges of said walls, and with this extended bracket 0 the flange c of the stud is also extended, and I prefer to also provide integral with the stud a lower extended bracket 0, Fig. 7, indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 8 and having flanges c c of the lower end of the stub correspondingly extended on the lower side of said bracket 0. These extended brackets C and C may be provided with bolt-holes c for receiving bolts for securing the end and side bar members with said brackets.

E is a coupling-bolt of suitable size preferably passed downwardly through a perforation through the end-bar member A (or a web portion of the same) and vertically through the bolt receiving chamber 0 of the stud and then through a perforation in the side-bar member, when the bolt is secured by a nut c.

F is an ad justing-screw screwing into a screw-threaded hole provided in a suitable side of the body of the stud and adapted to be screwed against the body of the couplingbolt E, as shown in Fig. 9, for moving said bolt and the end-bar member A outwardly in direction of arrow 1 in Fig. 9 when the nut e of the coupling-bolt is loosened, when the lower end portion of said coupling-bolt will be moved within the chamber O of the stud and also in the oblong perforation a, Fig. 0, provided in the side-bar member A, while the end-bar member will slide on the seating surfaces or seating edges (2 of the stud to the distance the adj listing-screw F is screwed into the side of the said stud.

IVhen in place of the oblong perforation a in bar A, Fig. 9, there is employed a perforation of size and form corresponding with the diameter of the coupling-bolt E, as indicated by dotted lines a, I provide in the end-bar memberA an oblong or slot-form perforation, (indicated by dotted lines at a a Fig. 9,) when the said end-bar member may be moved outwardly in direction indicated by dotted lines in said Fig. 9. A perforated piece H,

which I term the keeper, Figs. 8 and 9, serves as a stiff clamping-washer adapted under pressure from the coupling-bolt E to tightly hold with the upper surface of the endbar member A or a web portion of the same.

This stud O and its adj unctive parts, above described, and the coupling-bolt E form a simple, cheap, and effective means for securing the bar members of the bed-bottom frame together and also provide for a suitable degree of adjustment of the head and foot endbar members of the frame, whether toward or from each other, and also in relation to the side-bar members, so that the slack of a wovenwire bed-bottom may readily be taken up at will and without liability of the side and end bar members becoming loosened when the frame is in use.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In a frame of a spring bed-bottom, the stud 0 having in its body the coupling-bolt chamber 0, and having a flange c on its upper end and one or more guiding-flanges on its lower end, and provided at a side thereof with bracket G extended in direction transverse to the direction of the guiding-flanges at the lower end of the said stud substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a frame of a spring bed-bottom, the stud 0 having in its body the chamber 0 and the bracket 0 projected from an outer side of said stud with its upper surface on a plane with the seating edges 0 c, and having flange a projected above said seating edges, and having below the guiding-flanges c 0 arranged relatively parallel with each otherand at right angles to the flange c and having also on its body the supporting-bracket C projected from its outer side and adapted to have support from the bed-frame of a bed substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a frame of a spring bed-bottom the combination with a side-bar member and an end-bar member thereof, one of said bar members having a perforation corresponding with the body of the bolt it is to receive, and the other provided with a slot-form perforation in direction of the length of the said frame, of the coupling-stud C, provided with coupling-bolt-receiving chamber C, upper end flange c and lower end flanges c 0 couplingbolt and keeper, and a bracket C integral with said co upling-stud, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

BOLIVER NEWBURY.

\Vitnesses:

A. SELKIRK, J r., CHARLES SELKIRK. 

